Growing Everyday

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My little girl is now 7. I can’t believe how fast the time flies. She is maturing everyday and comes up with something new to tell me or create everyday. She wants to enter the Science Fair this year. That will be a new and interesting experience. First Grade has been hard on her but she is perservering. Beka has undying curiousity and a love of all animals insects included.

This past year Beka has grown so much. I can’t believe how tall she is already. She loves to swim and really enjoys Daddy teaching her all the strokes. She loves her brother even though they fight sometimes. She finally has the dog she has been begging for.

Beka loves math which I am pretty sure she did not get from me. Reading is not her favorite activity unless a new Fancy Nancy book has just come out. I am hoping to get her started on another series soon. I am just so excited to see how she grows over the next year.

Beka decided she wanted a chocolate cake with yellow frosting, rainbow spinkles, and her name in pink icing. We had fun making the cake.

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Jared turned 5 years old today and he was quite proud of that fact. He is now ready for kindergarten at least according to him he is. He is growing so much….he is maturing everyday. He still doesn’t have much empathy, but he is loving and kind. Jared puts 100% into everything he does. Once you get him focused on a task, a game, or activity, he stays focused until it is done. Unless of course it is TV and then he only focuses until the commercial. He loves his sister, mom, dad, and God. He is such as amazing little man. I love him dearly and I am so proud of him. Jared has been running around the house lately and then asking if you saw that blur go by or he will be very quiet (as quiet as a 5 year-old can be) in order to sneak up on you. He certainly makes everyday different and exciting.

For his birthday, Jared decided on Chinese for his supper (He loves the teriyaki chicken) and a big cookie instead of a cake.

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Well, my daughter is now a big six year old. We had a small party with some of her friends from school here at the house. We decided not to allow the children to bring gifts. We wanted her birthday to be more about being with people than the gifts. Plus, she was so blessed at Christmas, there wasn’t anything she really wanted or needed.

Everyone seemed to have a very good time at the party. We played pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and a balloon popping race. Mostly, though, the girls just played together. And Beka did receive wonderful gifts from her grandparents. She received perler beads, stamps, stamp pads, some clothes. Mom, Dad, and Jared got her a sticker maker and a detectives kit.

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Since we had the party, Beka decided we had to decorate too. We made a great spot with streamers and a sign to take pictures in front of.

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